Classical Conversations Basic Timeline

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  • 4000 BCE

    Creation and the Fall

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 450

    Age of Ancient Empires

    Creation - c. A.D 450
  • 2348 BCE

    The Flood and the Tower of Babel

    https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/timeline-for-the-flood/
  • 2273 BCE

    Egyptians

  • 2273 BCE

    Indus River Valley Civilization

    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/a-correct-chronology/
  • 2273 BCE

    Minoans

  • 2273 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/a-correct-chronology/
  • 2273 BCE

    Mycenaeans

    https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/news/who-were-the-minoans/
  • 2273 BCE

    Sumer

    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/a-correct-chronology/
  • 2273 BCE

    Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

  • 2273 BCE

    Patriarchs of Israel

    https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/timeline-for-the-flood/
    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/a-correct-chronology/
  • 2000 BCE

    Kush

  • 2000 BCE

    Hittites and Canaanites

    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/how-do-we-know-what-happened/
    https://answersingenesis.org/archaeology/ancient-egypt/a-correct-chronology/
  • 1900 BCE

    Assyrians

  • 1900 BCE

    Babylonians

  • 1766 BCE

    China's Shang Dynasty

  • 1500 BCE

    Hinduism in India

  • 1500 BCE

    Olmecs of Mesoamerica

  • 1500 BCE

    Phoenicians and the Alphabet

  • 1446 BCE

    Israelite Exodus and Desert Wandering

  • 1406 BCE

    Israelite Conquest and Judges

  • 1100 BCE

    Greek Dark Ages

  • 1051 BCE

    Israel's United Kingdom

  • 1000 BCE

    Early Native Americans

  • 931 BCE

    Israel Divides into Two Kingdoms

  • 800 BCE

    Homer and Hesiod

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded by Romulus and Remus

  • 722 BCE

    Israel Falls to Assyria

  • 612 BCE

    Assyria Falls to Babylon

  • 604 BCE

    Lao-Tzu, Confucius, Buddha

  • 597 BCE

    Judah Falls to Babylon, Temple Destroyed

  • 539 BCE

    Babylon Falls to Persia

  • 538 BCE

    Jews Return and Rebuild the Temple

  • 509 BCE

    Roman Republic

  • 479 BCE

    Golden Age of Greece

  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars

  • 331 BCE

    Persia Falls to Alexander the Great

  • 321 BCE

    India's Mauryan Empire

  • 300 BCE

    Mayans of Mesoamerica

  • 264 BCE

    Punic Wars

  • 146 BCE

    Rome Conquers Greece

  • 100 BCE

    Roman Dictator Julius Caesar

  • 27 BCE

    Caesar Augustus and the Pax Romana

  • 5 BCE

    John the Baptist

  • 4 BCE

    Jesus the Messiah

  • 30

    Pentecost and the Early Church

  • 64

    Persecution Spreads the Gospel

  • 70

    Herod's Temple Destroyed by Titus

  • 286

    Diocletian Divides the Roman Empire

  • 313

    Constantine Legalizes Christianity

  • 320

    India's Gupta Dynasty

  • 325

    Council of Nicea

  • 354

    Augustine of Hippo

  • 405

    Jerome Completes the Vulgate

  • 410

    Visigoths Sack Rome

  • Period: 450 to 1500

    The Middle Ages

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

  • 476

    Western Roman Empire Falls to Barbarians

  • 527

    Byzantine Emperor Justinian

  • 529

    Benedict and Monasticism

  • 622

    Muhammad Founds Islam

  • 700

    Zanj and Early Ghana in Africa

  • 732

    Franks Defeat Muslims at the Battle of Tours

  • 750

    Golden Age of Islam

  • 793

    Vikings Raid and Trade

  • 794

    Japan's Heian Period

  • 800

    Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Europe

  • 871

    Alfred the Great of England

  • 900

    Erik the Red and Leif Eriksson, Norse Explorers

  • 958

    Vladimir I of Kiev

  • 976

    Byzantine Emperor Basil II

  • 1054

    East-West Schism of the Church

  • 1066

    Norman Conquest and Feudalism in Europe

  • 1095

    The Crusades

  • 1100

    Zimbabwe and Early Mali in Africa

  • 1100

    Aztecs of Mesoamerica

  • 1181

    Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas

    1181 and 1225 AD
  • 1192

    Japan's Shoguns

  • 1200

    Incas of South America

  • 1206

    Genghis Khan Rules the Mongols

  • 1215

    England's Magna Carta

  • 1250

    Ottoman Empire

  • 1271

    Marco Polo's Journey to China

  • 1337

    The Hundred Years' War and Black Death

  • 1350

    The Renaissance

  • 1368

    China's Ming Dynasty

  • Period: 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • 1419

    Prince Henry Founds School of Navigation

  • 1440

    Slave Trade in Africa

  • 1455

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

  • 1460

    Songhai in Africa

  • 1462

    Czar Ivan the Great of Russia

  • 1478

    The Spanish Inquisition

  • 1492

    Columbus Sails to the Caribbean

  • Period: 1500 to

    Age of Absolute Monarchs

  • 1517

    Protestant Reformation

  • 1519

    Spanish Conquistadors in the Americas

  • 1536

    Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • 1545

    Council of Trent

  • Baroque Period of the Arts

  • Japan's Isolation

  • Jamestown and Plymouth Colony Founded

    1607 and 1620
  • Period: to

    Age of Enlightenment

  • Hudson's Bay Company

  • The First Great Awakening

  • Classical Period of the Arts

  • The Seven Years' War

  • Period: to

    Age of Industry

  • James Cook Sails to Australia and Antarctica

  • American Revolution and General George Washington

  • Madison's Constitution and the Bill of Rights

  • French Revolution

  • Period: to

    President George Washington

  • The Second Great Awakening

  • Period: to

    President John Adams

  • Period: to

    President Thomas Jefferson

  • Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France

  • Liberation of South America

  • Period: to

    President James Madison

  • The War of 1812

  • Period: to

    President James Monroe

  • U.S. Evangelist Billy Graham

    1819-2018

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Immigrants Flock to America

  • The Monroe Doctrine

  • Romantic Period of the Arts

  • Period: to

    President John Quincy Adams

  • Period: to

    President Andrew Jackson

  • Period: to

    President Martin Van Buren

  • Cherokee Trail of Tears

  • Period: to

    President William H Harrison

  • Period: to

    President John Tyler

  • U.S. Westward Expansion

  • Period: to

    President James K. Polk

  • Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto

  • Period: to

    President Zachary Taylor

  • The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision

    1850 and 1857
  • Period: to

    President Millard Fillmore

  • U.S. Restores Trade with Japan

  • Period: to

    President Franklin Pierce

  • Period: to

    President James Buchanan

  • British Queen Victoria's Rule Over India

  • Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species

  • Lincoln's War Between the States

  • Period: to

    President Abraham Lincoln

  • Reconstruction of the Southern States

  • Period: to

    President Andrew Johnson

  • Dominion of Canada

  • Period: to

    President Ulysses S. Grant

  • Otto von Bismarck Unifies Germany

  • Period: to

    President Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Boer Wars in Africa

  • Period: to

    President Chester A. Arthur

  • Period: to

    President James A. Garfield

  • Period: to

    President Grover Cleveland

  • Period: to

    President Benjamin Harrison

  • Period: to

    President Grover Cleveland

  • Period: to

    President William McKinley

  • The Spanish-American War

  • The Progressive Era

  • Australia Becomes a Commonwealth

  • Period: to

    President Theodore Roosevelt

  • Period: to

    President William Howard Taft

  • Mexican Revolution

  • Period: to

    President Woodrow Wilson

  • World War I and President Wilson

  • Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

  • Modern Period of the Arts

  • Period: to

    President Warren G. Harding

  • Period: to

    President Calvin Coolidge

  • The Great Depression and the New Deal

  • Period: to

    President Herbert Hoover

  • Period: to

    President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • World War II and President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Stalin of the USSR and the Katyn Massacre

  • The United Nations Formed

  • The Cold War

  • Period: to

    President Harry S. Truman

  • Gandhi and India's Independence

  • Jewish State Established

  • Mao and Communist Victory in China

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • The Korean War

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

  • Period: to

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Jim and Elisabeth Elliot, MIssionaries to Ecuador

  • The Antarctic Treaty

  • Period: to

    President John F. Kennedy

  • Period: to

    President Lyndon B. Johnson

  • The Vietnam War

  • U.S. Astronauts Walk on the Moon

  • Period: to

    President Richard M. Nixson

  • Period: to

    Age of Information and Globalization

  • Watergate, President Nixon Resigns

  • Period: to

    Gerald Ford

  • Period: to

    President James E. Carter

  • Period: to

    President Ronald Reagan

  • Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

  • Period: to

    President George H. W. Bush

  • European Union Formed

  • Period: to

    President William J. Clinton

  • Apartheid Abolished in South Africa

  • Period: to

    President George W. Bush

  • September 11, 2001

  • Period: to

    Rising Tide of Freedom

  • Period: to

    President Barack H. Obama

  • Period: to

    President Donald J. Trump

  • Period: to

    President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

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